[Mip6-firewall] [MEXT] New versions (-04) of the firewall vendor and admin drafts

Suresh Krishnan suresh.krishnan at ericsson.com
Wed Jun 18 10:15:04 EDT 2008


Hi Gabor,
   Noriaki's concerns are valid. I am simply reluctant to put in more 
work into these documents if they are going to be abandoned.

Thanks
Suresh

Gabor.Bajko at nokia.com wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Shouldn't we provide an answer to the questions below?
> 
> Noriaki is right, there are some aspects of MIP6 and Firewalls in those
> two documents he mentions, but those address different issues:
> 
> RFC4890 only addresses the filtering of ICMP6 messages within MIP6,
> while RFC4942 addresses the security aspects of MIP6 (Suresh is a
> co-author in this, probably can explain better why there is no overlap
> with that document).
> 
> - Gabor
> 
>   >-----Original Message-----
>   >From: mext-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:mext-bounces at ietf.org] 
>   >On Behalf Of ext Noriaki TAKAMIYA
>   >Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:06 PM
>   >To: suresh.krishnan at ericsson.com
>   >Cc: mext at ietf.org
>   >Subject: Re: [MEXT] New versions (-04) of the firewall 
>   >vendor and admin drafts
>   >
>   >Hi,
>   >
>   >>> Wed, 07 May 2008 14:09:53 -0400
>   >>> [Subject: [MEXT] New versions (-04) of the firewall 
>   >vendor and admin 
>   >>> drafts] Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan at ericsson.com> wrote...
>   >
>   >> Hi Folks,
>   >>    We have submitted new versions of the firewall vendor 
>   >guidelines 
>   >> and the administrator guidelines drafts to address the 
>   >issues raised 
>   >> during the earlier reviews and during the IETF71 mext 
>   >meeting. Please 
>   >> take a look and let us know if you have any comments or issues.
>   >
>   >  I'v not been the meeting for a long time, and if it is 
>   >insufficient,
>   >  correct me.
>   >
>   >  Firewall configuration for MIPv6 is also described in RFC4890 and
>   >  RFC4942.
>   >
>   >  How about refer to these document?
>   >
>   >  example)
>   >  4.3.2 in RFC4890
>   >  2.1.2, 2.1.15  in RFC4942
>   >
>   >  Regareds,
>   >
>   >--
>   >Noriaki TAKAMIYA
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